From the _Vera Crux_ came twentie of the townes men with certificat what _Naruaez_ had published, and brought with them a priest, with _Alonso Gueuara_ and _Iohn ruiz de Vergara_, who had comen to _Vera Crux_ to amotiue the towne, vnder colour that they had brought the commissiö from the king. _Cortes_ on the otherside, sent vnto _Naruaez_ seignior _Bartholome de Olmedo_, with other two Spaniards, to offer vnto him his friendship, & otherwise to require & commaunde him on the behalfe of the kyng & of his owne, as chiefe iustice of the land, and in the name of the rulers and Aldermen of the towne of _Vera Crux_, who were then in _Mexico_, that he shoulde enter peaceably, without making any alteration vntill his auctoritie and commission were séene and allowed, and to make no slaunder or vprore to the hinderäce of the king his maisters procedings. But al this diligence and letters of _Cortes_ and the other rulers preuailed not, he seing this, set at libertie the priest that was brought prisoner, and sente him vnto _Naruaez_, with certaine riche collers of gold, and other iewels with a letter, wherein he wrote, that he was more gladder of his comming in that fléete than any other, for the friendship and olde acquaintaunce that had bene betwixt them, desiring him that they mought talke and cöferre togither, alone, for to take order to prohibite wars, sedition, bloudshedde and disquietnesse among them, beyng of one natiö and brethren, requestyng him to shew his cömission from the king vnto him, or vnto the counsell of _Vera Crux_, and he would willingly obey it as reason did require: and if he had not brought any such commission, yet he would make some honest agrement with him. _Pamfilo de Naruaez_ seing himselfe strong and mightie, did little regarde _Cortes_ his letters, offers, nor requestes, and chiefly bycause _Iames Velasques_ was sore displeased with _Cortes_. The talke of Naruaez to the Indians, _and his answere to Cortes_. [Sidenote: A foule bragge.] _Pamphilo de Naruaez_ declared to the _Indiäs_ that they were deceyued with their opiniö in _Cortes_, for that he alone was Captayne generall and chiefe Lorde, and that _Cortes_ was but a naughty man, and so were all they of his company which are now in _Mexico_, who were all but his boyes, and that his present commyng was to cut of _Cortes_ his head, and to chasten the others, likewyse he meant to dryue them all out of the countrey, & then to departe himselfe, and to leaue them in full libertie. [Sidenote: A cruell proclamation.] [Sidenote: A madde reckenyng.]